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Hiya Dale. AgentOrangeGuy and Myself are working on the Exult Ultima 6 mod. Progress is being made and currently we're pushing to get it done hopefully within the next few months.

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Does anyone out there know if the standard book size of 7-10 pages is hard coded into the game engine? Can it be expanded to a few hundred pages or so? Trying to add an ingame diary regarding a subquest for a mod; but the default 7 pages make it prohibitive to do so.

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Agentorangeguy, If you're up for an Exult Remake of Ultima V, then let me know. I'll work with you on it... (Not all of us made it through the Dungeon siege version and the Exult engine is far easier to navigate) Seeing as it's my favorite in the series I have several ideas in mind about making it w...

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Dom, can you supply me with Cuthbert's uc file?

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Actually with Hackmover enabled you can simply open up your backpack and drag her into it. She won't complain, I promise...

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Thanks much Dom.

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Is there a help file associated with the usecode decompiler that has a basic command list? I've looked but can't find anything.

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Sorry about the delay... Yup, I'm using the latest snapshots..

Glad to hear there's a usecode decompiler.

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As far as characters go, I just pull up a random NPC the game already has on file and tried to rename him. But the system wouldnt accept the renaming of any npc I brought up... The curious thing was that no matter what npc I tried to monkey with, the only portrait that it would associate with the pa...

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Well, I downloaded the ES (Work in Progress) one instead of the other one. There's two different versions available for download. I am also using the latest snapshot of Exult. Dom, is there any way to decompile the main usecode file to turn the conversations into plain english? (well, so I can look ...

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Should I perhaps go back to the ES that isn't (In Progress)?

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I was using the PC version, not the PPA.

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I tried to create a new NPC. I brought up an NPC that wasn't being used and tried to rename him... I assigned him my custom usecode file and dragged him onscreen with ES. When I was finished, he was there, but with his original name.. Though the usecode worked fine. Agentorangeguy mentioned that his...

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It is kinda funny actually.. Well, it wasn't exactly the Zombie Apocalypse per se; but close enough for my purposes. :-P After LB's demise they woke up and just stood there.. Only the people in the castle though, (Minus Batlin of course).. I killed Nystul (again); with Arcadion, the others he refuse...

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Actually, I did some more testing on this.. Anyone who Arcadion deems worthy of killing after casting Armageddon will temporarily rise up from Armageddon Sleep and wait for the black sword to slay them, after which the re-slain body vanishes completely..

Interesting....

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I just got an interesting result from doing this.. 1.Casting Armageddon 2x in Britain 2.Waking up LB via the Linear awaken spell 3.Fragging him with Arcadion That was fine, but the minute he hit the floor everyone else that was in the castle suddenly awoke... Talk about unexpected.. :-) You couldn't...

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Did I miss something? I never accused you of lifting a story from anyone.. I just happened to remember that Xena episode and mentioned that it sounded exactly like your premise that others may remember as well if they were fans of the series; and that you might not want to go that way. I also apolog...

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Agentorangeguy, I salute you! I always knew that great minds think alike! :-) I know that place well, I love going there all the time and casting "Mass Death".. Or every spell in the book that yields laughable results! Grabbing the tracker hound and using him with the cheat whistle. Or pou...

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agentorangeguy said: "Dieing in the netherworld - your soul is transported back to the place where souls enter - this neutral zone. evil souls killed there go to a darker side of the dark lands... perhaps like Dante's inferno witht he circles of hell and the varying punishments. On the evil sid...

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Oh, agentorangeguy, Great idea.

Glad to see that you're a Xena/Hercules fan too!

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Again, I'm trying to keep things mostly canon. There's where our fundamental differences lie. Most everything save for what we discussed way back in the beginning has a basis in Earth Legends or in the latter case; recent TV Greek Mythology.. (Bogus as it may be, it's still based in Greek Mythology....

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Oh, and Battles there, if you defeat monsters, especially in their own home territory, where exactly would they go? They can't die. They're already dead!

Small issue...

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janna'scurse asked: "Anther thought I had awhile back is can a weapon trigger more then one action?" Yes, The Current Death Scythe acts as a curse spell and a mana drain as well as delivering 50 points of damage per blow. Other than that several other weapons, such as magebane drain mana b...

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Author: janna'scurse said "Maybe a possessed spark ruled Britannia."

I'll comment on that if you answer me this!

What happens if Darth Vader pukes inside his helmet? Does it drip out the front?

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Thanks... :-) You just gave me an interesting thought... The Shrine of All Virtue in the 'dead' center of the land of the dead could be compared to the Shrine of the Codex at the bottom of the Abyss.. On Britannia, it represents an infinity of knowledge that has to be consulted when on a sacred ques...

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Oh, as an aside, Horrance wanted the Avatar himself to join him as 'His Avatar'.. Remember Horrance's Conversation thread while he's still possessed?

Like I said, read the "LB's Last Will" thread.. And you'll see what we were all referring too when it came to Extorting/killing LB.

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If the Avatar accepted either of those proposals, then he would cease to be the Avatar as all virtue in him would be a loss... Hawkwind would not approve... I can see it now.. "Repeat after me eight times Oh Once-Avatar; 'Thou Hast Lost An Eighth!" I was thinking of humorous ways to bring ...

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:-) Thanks.. I'm happy to help with ideas... As far as killing LB is concerned, nothing in this world gives me greater pleasure than inventing new ways to murder LB... I've written extensively about it before in an earlier thread regarding His will and testament... Click back a few pages in the phor...

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Well, I wouldn't go with the whole 'River styx' deal because those are Earth concepts. Not Britannian ones. The dead in Britannia stick around as ghosts; 'Quenton' for example.. Or according to SI they eventually enter the etherial void. When the Tinker Christopher is seanced for example.. (or in th...

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That's pretty cool!

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Hmm, they did that deal in U9 where you entered the realm of the trapped souls through Horrances 'well of souls'... The results left much to be desired.. But I blame EA for that one.. The problem with defeating 'death' itself as it were is that if you able to vanquish the 'concept', as it were.. Eve...

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Agentorangeguy, Thanks for the kudos! Hahahaha.. And I love your idea of a time limit in the underworld! That way, it makes the player WANT to explore what's down there instead of by default 'looking for the fastest short cut'... I mean, definitely have those in place for people who just want to exp...

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Oh, let me preface all this by stating that I do understand the original reasoning behind it all.. It was of course meant to place a seed of doubt in the players mind as to whether or not E&A were really as evil as the NPC's said they were since they keep saving the player every time he takes a ...

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And, more importantly; is this hard coded, or can this be altered to have a more traditional LB resurrection?

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Yeah, they find you close to death and drag you to the paws poorhouse in their cart.. But even I have to admit that janna'scurse is correct when she/he, (sorry) :-) stated that the very people that are saving you are the very ones that not only try to kill you in the end; but you are actively huntin...

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Sounds like a great idea for a mod; but a point to keep in mind. Remember that anyone who plays it straight without the cheats involved will be dying quite alot.. So the land of the dead will by necessity need to have a default 'quick path back to britannia', Maybe it could be several fixed trigger ...

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Any chance of a mac version anytime soon?

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You too? *heh*

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Not true, it WAS finished and was simply waiting to be duplicated for the masses when it was promptly cancelled... So says everything I've read about it on the Ultima Codex. So if someone out there has the disks on them, you can be rest assured that it's a complete copy and not some unfinished Alpha...

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What amazes me is that you've still got floppy drives attached to your system at all... Most of those were completely phased out by the early 2000's. Apple has already phased out the internal optical drive (but offers it as an $80 external option).. Which means that that's next up for elimination; a...

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That was funny with the sheep in SI... Now my companions think I'm a sicko. LOL!

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Interesting... Thanks.

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Yeah, I got the truth out of them... Man, it took forever for that line of dialogue to be presented.. The funny part about it though, once they know that they've been had; and you have Tseramed in your party; they no longer object to his being there in the slightest... LOL!

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I was recently clicking on a cow multiple times in Exult and all everyone ever says is Moo... In my UO days of yesteryear if you double clicked on a cow at least 3 times there was a 50/50 shot it would go Mooooooo and promptly tip over...

Is it possible mimic this in Exult?

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Well, I reverted to a very early save when they weren't mad at all, but after Tseramed exposed them as frauds; and Papa asked me if I were a bee killer, I said no.. I then had Tseramed leave the party.. When I re-entered the cave and talked to Papa again all I received was the same response... "...

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Doh!

Ok, I'll revert to an earlier save to test it out.. Thanks much.

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Crowley, can you do me a favor and check the usecode for the bee cave people? I had Tseramed leave the party and wait outside of the bee cave entrance for me to return... I tried talking to "Papa" and he simply said "Go away Bee Killer" or words to that effect.. So I'm getting no...

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